The EMEA smartphone market threw off the coronavirus blues in the third quarter, bouncing back to register some growth over the same period in 2019, according to International Data Corporation’s (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. Total smartphone volumes were 93.1 million, up 2.1 per cent on Q3 2019, for a value of $27.7 billion. […]
Worldwide spending on telecommunication and pay TV services will reach $1.55 trillion in 2020, a decrease of 1.4 per cent year over year, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Semi-annual Telecom Services Tracker. IDC expects the market to start its recovery next year, but pre-crisis spending levels will not be reached before 2022. […]
As the world continues to deal with the pandemic, the market for virtual reality (VR) headsets is expected to decline 6.7 per cent in 2020 before returning to double-digit growth of 46.2 per cent in 2021, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Quarterly Augmented and Virtual Reality Headset Tracker. The market has faced a […]